Our new Brightspace Creator+ addition provides engaging content formats and layouts to easily add to a course. These can break up text, allow students to interact with content in different ways, and provide in context learning checks. There are many great options so far with more coming in the future and we encourage you to try […]
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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) has been a fantastic free instructor resource but will soon be rolled into the Microsoft Teams for Education suite of tools. In this post we will share a few details about the access restrictions and alternatives from our own suite of Meredith tools. Some important dates for the Flip phase out: Read
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Layouts Layouts make configuring content easier, and faster, then ever. With this feature, creators have the option to arrange text, media, and even Creator+ Elements into panels. This opens your content pages to a new range of design possibilities. Instead of placing content into one long vertical page, you can now organize text and media
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Still Curious About Creator +? As the semester has successfully begun, we hope that your students are finding your course content to be engaging, interactive and as impactful as you designed it to be. If you attended the Creator + Sessions during Faculty Staff Planning Week, we learned about how the Creator + creation tools
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Brightspace introduced a new “Work to Do” system widget that can be added onto Course Homepages and is on the Brightspace Main landing page. By default, this widget is viewable by Learners and pulls data from all tools within the Brightspace Learning Environment including: There has been some confusion for students with this widget so
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Faculty have access to thousands of educational and documentary videos from Infobase’s Films on Demand. This is a fantastic resource on campus and you can learn more about it on the Carlyle Campbell Library website. This post focuses specifically on how to easily use this resource in Brightspace. It is possible share with a link
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Previously we discussed how to use backwards design to design an entire course. You can apply some backwards design principles when creating your modules as well. Brightspace’s HTML editor and Insert Stuff tool are great for creating modules that provide clarity to your students by keeping the rationale for your decisions easily accessible and in
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Numerous instructional and course design models depend upon “backwards design” as their prime organizing principle. Many instructors start by deciding which content they want to include in their course, then decide on assessments, then course objectives. Backwards design reverses that process, making content the last thing you would choose. Flower Darby, in her book Small
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Oftentimes instructors need a simple, repeatable process to help them when they are in the weeds of course design. One such process is Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction. Robert Gagné was an American educational psychologist best known for developing multiple systems for simplifying and delivering instruction. He pioneered the science of instruction during World War
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